----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Perrett" <tomp@st.net.au> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.australia+nz To: <genanz@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:47 AM Subject: Re: UNWANTED MAIL > On 12 Nov 2009 14:50:43 GMT, John P. Bromley wrote: > >>"Edna MacPherson SABATO" (ceilidh@sabatech.net) writes: >>> Hi, Everyone; >>> Is anyone else plagued with enormous numbers of Unwanted Mail??? >> >>Instead of trying to identify the source and block all incoming spam, >> >>The "down" side is that I do have to alert legitimate mailers (who >>frequently forget the protocol!)! > To me the even BIGGER downsize with > that is one would never be able to subscribe > to any mailing list. A simple solution is to use Gmail for list use. The Gmail spam filters are very effective or so my experience has been. On the down side you do not get a copy of your own posting to a list back, but then you have the original. Any good ISP should have spam filters in place in any case. Not that such are 100% effective. Keith Wellington, NZ